Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 1905 Page: 13 of 20
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(Copyright 1905 by Dally Story Pul>. Co.)
Ralph Bishop was heels over heal
in love with pretty Helen Easley and
nil the town knew it, Including Helen.
But nothing could induce Ralph to
make the necessary avowal, although
he would have given his ears to do
so. Bold enough in most things, ho
was an abject coward in this, even as
many other brave men have been be-
fore liim and many other brave men
will be after liim even to the end of
time.
He had courage in plenty, in other
ways, moral as well as physical,
but the audacity of asking for Helen's
hand and heart quite overwhelmed
him—and then there was the refusal
he feared; it was wholly impossible
for him to risk incurring that. i'.
mattered not that Helen gave him all
the encouragement commensurate
with a proper appreciation of herself
and the dictates of womanly modesty,
but like unto the'most of mankind he
was cheerfully oblivious to her at-
tempts to help and so the months and
years rolled by, filled with great long-
ing on his part, together with a sort
of nerve paralysis, which had become
chronic. In her presence he was
stricken dumh the moment he got
near the subject closest his heart. Nor
was he able to frame his desires in
the form of a letter, albeit he was a
writer of singular force and beauty.
So it had become an accepted fact
that Bishop wanted to but couldn't.
On Helen's part she had grown some-
what bitter at his stupid hesitancy
and had given him up and become
rather brusque in her treatment of
him. This only served to confirm-his
belief that he had no hope.
Matters were in th's condition of
stagnation when a very strange thing
happened. Ralph, while he could not
summon courage to write a proposal
to Helen, was wont to feed his imagi-
nation and provide a safety valve for
his bursting heart by writing long and
ardent letters to the object of his
passion, which letters never got fur-
ther than the grate in his room. Now
Ralph, as has been intimated before,
had a talent for writing. Indeed some
of his things had been accepted by
publications of standing and he was
not without hope of a literary career.
At any rate he had the gift of placing
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Was head over heels in love with
pretty Helen Easley.
his thoughts and feelings graphically
upon paper and some of his imaginary
letters to Helen were gems of the
first water because they were inspired
by so ardent and so honest a passion.
One day, feeling especially sur-
charged with his ruling emotions, he
threw aside his other work and busied
himself for an hour or more pouring
nut tain 'he moa< *lowlnj
phrases in a fictitious letter addressed
to "My darling, darling Helen," and
signed "Your most devoted lover,
Ralph Bishop." One particularly hap-
py phrase—a new one in this growing
series of never-sent le..~."8—pleased
him immensely. "If you will accept
the homage and life-long devotion of
your true knight and are willing to
trust your life to his keeping—a trust
he pledges to keep with single-hearted
devotion—simply write the word
'Come' on a sheet of paper and sign
your name and with this encourage-
ment I will fly to your side and tell
you of a love of which I can only
hint on cold paper."
As he was reading over this burn-
ing effusion he was called to the tele-
phone and was there snmmoned down
town on an important business mis-
sion—none the less than to meet a
publisher who chanced to belli town
and wanted to talk with him regarding
a proposed novel about which there
had been some correspondence. Vast-
ly excited at the alluring prospect of
this meeting he grabbed his hat and
hastened away.
Later in the day Grandma Bishop, a
white-haired lady of the old-fashioned
school, who was very fond of Ralph,
but greatly vexed at the deadlock in
his affair with Helen Easley, went into
Ralph's room to get a book. Now
Grandma had gone so far as to ex-
postulate with Ralph at his faintheart-
edness, but had been met with such
a torrent of rebuke that even her
fearless spirit quailed and she had
been compelled to acquiesce along
with the rest. So when her eyes
rested on the first page of a letter on
his desk beginning "My darling, darl-
ing Helen," she paused. Now mind I
do not accuse the venerable lady of
reading the letter. In fact I do not
know just what happened—only this:
A half-hour later Grandma said to
her daughter that she believed she
would go out for a little walk and as
she trotted away somebody remem-
bered afterward that she had a letter
in her hand. It is also a matter of
recollection that as she sat in her
favorite chair by the fire that even-
ing sho chuckled distinctly twice,
whereat there was 110 apparent occa-
sion. So noticeable was this that Mr.
Bishop said to his wife that night as
they were retiring:
"I fear mother is breaking. Did
you hear her chuckling away to her-
self to-night? It's a sign of old age."
To which Mrs. Bishop replied:
"Nonsense: mother's head is hard as
a nut. I only hope mine will be as
good at hor age."
In the meantime Ralph, greatly ex-
cited over his conference with the
publisher, which was most encourag-
ing, forgot all about the fictitious let-
ter he had left 011 his desk—and in-
deed it would have been strange oth-
erwise when one remembers all the
similar letters he had written and de-
stroyed.
Consequently when on the follow-
ing afternoon the postman brought
a neat little envelope addressed
in Helen's handwriting, he open-
ed . it without perturbation, think-
ing it an Invitation to some social
doings or a request to take a chance
on an impossible church fair quilt or
some other formality regarding which
notes frequently passed between them.
But when he opened the envelopo
and read in tremulous letters in the
middle of the page, "Come, Helen,'
he sat staring at it as though he were
possessed. Gradually it came to him.
He recollected the letter he had writ-
ten, and tried hard to think what he
had done with it. Then the great
thought broke in upon him: Helen
knew of his love and had accepted
i him. This mighty thought crowded
1 out all speculation—all lesser thoughts.
He was, downstairs in two bounds and
tearing along the streets and by short-
cuts toward the Easley house in a
manner that made people turn and
look at him and shake their heads.
He burst in upon her, breathless,
and seized her in his arras, regard-
less of the presence of her small
brother, who wondered greatly and
sneered audibly.
"Do you mean it, my darling?" he
almost shouted. "Don't tell me I'm
dreaming. And to think what h gump
I have been and all the time I've lost."
And then he kissed her repeatedly.
His bashfulneos and fear had vanished
and he could talk freely enough and
act the lover, too. But she shook him
loose and bade him stand back.
"You said you would tell me of a
love of which you could only hint on
cold paper," she said. "I am ready to
listen. Bobbie, go out in the yard
and play, this Instant."
That is about all there is to it, ex-
cepting when Ralph came to make
searching inquiry regarding how the
letter came to be mailed and his
Pouring out his heart in the most
glowing phrases.
mother, putting two and two together,
glanced significantly at grandma, that
innocent person looked up mildly irom
her knitting and said:
"Why, when a body sees a letter all
written, and knows that he was called
away suddenly, what would a body
naturally do but mail it?"
Whereupon grandma was picked up
bodily, knitting and all, and soundly
kissed and called a "dear, pious, old
conspirator," and promised the very
first piecc cut from the groom's cake.
All Ruled by Foreigners.
The curious fact is pointed out in
"T. A. T." that there is not now a
reigning sovereign in Europe whose
family is of the nation over which
he rules.
The house of Austria is in reality
the house of Lorraine, the Hapsburgs
being of Swiss origin. The king of
the Belgiums is of Saxe-Coburg. The
king of Denmark is a Holsteiner. The
king of Spain is an Austro-Bourbon.
The king of Italy is a Savoyard.
The king of Roumania and Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria arc both for-
eigners. The founder of the Berna-
dotte dynasty in Sweden was a coun-
try attorney at Pan less than a cen-
utry and a quarter ago.
The czar of Russia is a Holstein-
Gottorp, and the king of the Hellenes
is a Holsteiner. The British royal
family Is Hanoverian. The Hohen-
zollerna v;ere originally suabians, and
are, therefore, partly Bavarians and
partly Swiss.
Good Substitute for Rubber.
It is reported that a new kind of
rubber tree has beeu discovered in
the island of Madagascar, said to con-
tain much caoutchouc juice, which co-
agulates upon being boiled, producing
89 per cent caoutchouc of good quali-
ty. The tree is called "piarhazo" by
the natives, and attains a height of
over forty fe<jt. It is found in groves
in the northwestern part of the Island,
near Amboyo. and is marketed lr
Soolola. This caoutchouc has slight
mineral ingredients.
Commissioner Richards Settles School
Lard Mineral Claims
GUTHRIE: m a letter to the reg-
ister and receiver of the Guthrie land
office. W. S. Richards, commissioner
of the general land office1, makes it
very clear that no rights to locate
mineral claims 011 school sections in
Oklahoma will ever be allowed by that
office. The letter was inspired by a
recent application from Joseph Porter
of Cleveland, attorney for the oil men
who recently organized to prosecute
the case before the department.
In summing up the case the com-
missioner says: "Upon considering
the facts presented, the act of con-
gress and the authorities cited, it ap-
pears that the United States mineral
land laws are not in force as to the
land in questlon> and therefore It Is
not subject to exploration, location or
entry under the laws.
"Inasmuch as (he land in question is
not subject to location and purchase
under the United States mineral land
laws, it would not be proper to order
the hearing asked for, therefore tho
application is hereby denied."
ALICE WILL PAY DUTY
Collector and President Are Agreed
About It
CHICAGO: A dispalch to the Chi-
cago Record-Herald Irom Washing'">n
says:
"Secretary Shaw and the collector
of the port at San Francisco have ha;!
a load of trouble for several weeks
about which the public has known
nothing, and was lilted when the sec-
retary was told by the president to
collect the legal duty 011 all dutiablo
articles brought back to this country
by Miss Alice Roosevelt. The total
of duty is expected to be nearly sixty
thousand dollars.
"Finally Secretary Shaw took hi:)
burden to the president and told hiiu
about it.
" 'There is only one thing to do,' re-
plied the president. 'That is to treat
my daughter's baggago as you would
(he baggage of any other private per-
son. She shall pay duty on every-
thing that is dutiable.' "
FLOOD DAMAGES ASKED
Company's Excuse of "Act of God"
Not Sufficient for Ooe Shipper
GUTHRIE: .). P. Martin of Cleve-
land is here taking depositions in his
suit against (he Kanta Fe Railway
company, Involving the loss of several
bales of cot(on in the Kansas City
ilood of 1003. Martin was at that
time an extensive cotton shipper, and
twenty-six bales of his crop for 1902
were by some mistake shipped to Kan-
sas City. The railway company has
agreed to pay for all but eight bales,
which were destroyed by the flood.
The management of the railroad sets
up the claim that, as the flood was the
act of God, the company should not be
made to suffer. Martin's contention
is that the cotton should not have
been sent to Kansas City at the time
of the flood, and that the railway
company is responsible on that score.
The case will be tried at the next term
of the district court of Logan coutny.
LUTHERANS' STAND ON DIVORCE
Adultery and Desertion Only Will be
Recognized as Sufficient Grounds
MILWAUKEE. WIS.: The gener ti
council of Lutherans, meeting here,
settled the marriage and divorce ques-
tion by the adoption of a canon as to
the practice of the church in the fu-
ture, as follows: "That its pastors
shall decline to marry any person who
has a husband or wife living, unless
such a person shall have been di-
vorced by due process of law from
such husband or wife for thd cause of
adultery or willful desertion, and in
fhat case that they consent to marry
only tho innocent party to such di-
vorce, and then not until the expir-
xtlon of a year after the divorce shall
have been granted,"
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